Albion v Bristol C team news/matchthread

[The Minn Junta]

Well, I don't quite know what to make of all this, I know we're flying by the seat of our pants every week. It can't carry on going our way, surely. The only answer I can come up with is most of the Championship forwards can't finish whereas ours can.


Apart from that.....











....LAI OUT!

COYBB.

[mickd1961]

Bomber Brown said we were a disaster at the back and that at 4-2 we were hanging on by our fingertips.

Dullard Brown has to grow some nuts and get Bartley out and revert to a back four with Dawson and Hegazi in the centre.

The front four of Phillips,J Rod,Gayle and Barnes are clever enough to to play in a 4-2-3-1 but surely Field has to play in the "2" in front of the back four.

Until we have three athletic defenders who are comfortable on the ball this "experiment" needs putting on the back burner.

[Leicesterbaggie]

Bomber Brown said we were a disaster at the back and that at 4-2 we were hanging on by our fingertips.

Dullard Brown has to grow some nuts and get Bartley out and revert to a back four with Dawson and Hegazi in the centre.

The front four of Phillips,J Rod,Gayle and Barnes are clever enough to to play in a 4-2-3-1 but surely Field has to play in the "2" in front of the back four.

Until we have three athletic defenders who are comfortable on the ball this "experiment" needs putting on the back burner.

Couldn't agree more. Our defence has been shambolic all season. We aren't good enough to play the system that we are adopting at present and as you say we must move Dawson into the centre of the defence to play alongside Hegazi in a back four. We look a million dollars going forward but like paupers at the back. We can't keep on relying on our front men to score three or four goals every game in order to win matches. We have the basis of a side capable of getting out of this league but will not do so if we insist in playing three at the back.

[The Minn Junta]

Bomber Brown said we were a disaster at the back and that at 4-2 we were hanging on by our fingertips.

Dullard Brown has to grow some nuts and get Bartley out and revert to a back four with Dawson and Hegazi in the centre.

The front four of Phillips,J Rod,Gayle and Barnes are clever enough to to play in a 4-2-3-1 but surely Field has to play in the "2" in front of the back four.

Until we have three athletic defenders who are comfortable on the ball this "experiment" needs putting on the back burner.

I think it's a matter of time before we're on the end of a right d icking. Blues could have had five, I couldn't make the Bristol match but it sounded on the radio commentary like they could have had five aswell.


Should we experience a few injuries or bans to the likes of Barnes, Gayle etc and continue with this system I fear the worst. Seems daft complaining when we sit third in the league and having won 4-2 against a promotion rival but I think we all know it's not as plain and simple as all that. The big games, Boro, Leeds etc will find us out, as I said in another post, I think some of the poor finishing at this level has saved us so far. I wonder how we will fayre against Roofe and Roberts at Leeds? (two for Roberts last night), and we all know where they came from!

Megson played three at the back but they were never as uncertain as these three. Keeping hearing the post match "we're working on it" speech is worrying as we seem as shaky as ever. For me (also Mick)I think we need to consider a flat back four.